Example sentences of "that gave [pers pn] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Leading Scot was Adam Hunter after a 72 for 291 that gave him a share of 13th place and a cheque for £5,783 .
2 Because she was beautiful , with her flaxen blonde hair tumbling down her back and those unusual dark eyes and eyebrows that gave her a look of the exotic .
3 Hidden away , pushed to the darker recesses of her mind , it was a tangible presence that gave her a degree of comfort in the terrible loneliness of her marriage .
4 Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure .
5 ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’
6 Well that gave me a start of course , so immediately I got a warrant out , and he , some while afterwards he was picked up in London .
7 The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly .
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